"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

People who covet the reputation of experts, who write books telling other people how to live their lives, will never admit they were wrong. And this is especially true of political experts, whose misguided prognostications never seem to diminish their reputed expertise.

Among those called out are a couple of Harvard graduates. As Rush would say, “the smartest guys in the room.”

UPDATE: On a day of profound depression — dead broke on my birthday, and thus unable to travel to either Delaware or the Virginia Tea Party Convention — comes this final insult: In responding to Weigel, the Harvard-educated prodigy Douthat responds: